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City Startup Market Prophit Curates the Tweets Bankers Read to Strike Gold – June 16, 2014 There are, on average, 350,000 tweets sent per minute. That comes to 500 million tweets per day. Market Prophit, a New York City based start up, is looking for the stock market signals among all of those tweets. Founder Igor […]

Why Two Iconic Brands Went To The Birds, Literally – June 3, 2014 Bananas and ketchup anyone? How about some dark chocolate and parmesan cheese? History is replete with examples of uncommon pairings, shall we say and not all are of the food variety. Heck you can look at my wife and I for a classic […]

Money Managers Look for New Ways to Profit from Social-Media Monitoring – May 22, 2014 The opportunities presented by social media continue to grow for money managers, who are in a race to find ways to profit from troves of new data and its potential influence. (more)

As Ukraine gets hotter, fund winners and losers come into focus – May 2, 2014 As the Russia-Ukraine situation jumps back into the headlines and the tension showing few signs of abating anytime soon, advisers and investors understandably might be starting to think seriously about the implications of the conflict on their portfolios. (more)